Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew DeFaria Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: termcap problem in RXVT? Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:58:52 -0800 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3C99688C.1010906@DeFaria.com> References: <20020319212030 DOT GB24191 AT tuxedo DOT skovlyporten DOT dk> <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20020320175512 DOT 02211c10 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20020320203416 DOT 0221c688 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-64-195-250-225.telocity.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016686644 6360 64.195.250.225 (21 Mar 2002 04:57:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 04:57:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en,ru Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >>Not really. All the below reference says is that this is intentional, not why it's being done. My question was why. > > If you follow the later posts as I mention below, you might find the answers. Don't have the time. > If you're really interested in understanding what the background on this > issue is, you'll want to check out the discussions in the email archives > regarding the problems that arose when bash was changed. > > BTW, bash was changed because these environment variables are set at login > on *NIX platforms, so setting them in bash is redundant at best. > > But I still recommend looking at the email archives to understand > everyone's ideas on this issue. I really don't have the time to do this. I just pointed out the issue. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/